In editor settings I’ve had it set to go to next line since upgrading to 4.1

 

If I change that to start new paragraph all the posts from the last year will have double gaps like I’ve done in this post

 

Any way to prevent this?

This is the purpose of this setting and what it does, it doesn't change your content, but how it's displayed only. So changing this setting only changes how it's displayed.

 

7 hours ago, marklcfc said:

If I change that to start new paragraph all the posts from the last year will have double gaps like I’ve done in this post

Any way to prevent this?

You can find some solutions to this problem in this topic:

Well, I've just tried using this sql query on the localhost and it looks like it works fine for me, all the empty paragraphs have been removed:

update `ibf_forums_posts` set post = replace(post,'<p> </p>','');

PS. To remove empty paragraphs from new posts, I recommend using this plugin:

 

I’ll probably just keep it as it is as I always preferred that, only thing that bugs me is that when pressing enter twice to go to new paragraph as opposed to once in the other setting, the gap is larger. Here’s an example

with go to next line

with start new paragraph

Any way to shorten the gap like in the latter picture when I have go to next line set